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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1945)
Counties Register Veterans Papers TWENTY YEARS AGO The Coquille Gun club shoot was attended by about 40 last Sunday. About 45 turkeys and chickens were awarded as prises. ^George Johnson was'high winner with six turkeys to his credit. Earl Graham and A. J. Sherwood were next high with four were enough oranges, birds apiece, nuts beneath the tree in the Community each child present to Subscription Rates One Year. ------- ---- >2.09 Outside State...., ____ $2.50 All Subscriptions Strictly in Advance I club was a magnificent success. I The vqters rendered a very positive The Oregonian rises to congratulate the forestry school of the 'decision on all measures appearing University of Washington and its new dean, Gordon D. Marek-' on the ballot at the special election worth, in stalling a project, to improve the quality of Douglas fir Monday.' For Hall and Front streets interesection improvement, yes 147, seed and subsequently, of course, of the vast fir forest itself, i no 16; for purchase of Athletic Park, There is as yet nothing else in the Pacific Northwest quite so' yes 123, no 42; for authority to in crease maximum fine from $100 io important to our economy as Douglas fir, and any move that will j $250, yes ill, no 3«; charter amend help to perpetuate this king of trees and to improve it is of the ment regording giving notice of call for caucus to nominate city officers, greatest importance. * yes Ilf, no 38. It will surprise and possibly shock wheat and corn farmers The heaviest mail ever to leave found th to learn that the lumber industry knows little about tree seeds Cooquille was that sent out from the can not and has done nothing to improve them. It has been content to postoffice here Tuesday morning.1 this size. reproduce its forests, not only here in our region, but the world over, by regeneration from wild stock, from field planting of wild The most back ward farmer knows how the Red Fife and other strains of .wheat were improved steadily year after year until a variety was de veloped that would withstand frost, that would burgeon mightily no matter the rain or the drouth, and that doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled the yield per acre. The most casual farmer| seed, or from wild and hence unimproved seeds. knows about hybrid com and ith amazing results. In response to inquiries regarding the recording of veterans’ discharge papers. Director Hugh E. Rosson of th« Department of Veterans’ Affairs explained today that all counties in Oregon will perform this service without cost, as provided by state law. Some confusion arose when the Navy begain issuing a "notice of separation” on a separate sheet from the actual discharge certificate. But Attorney General George Neuner, in an opinion handed down in November ruled that this was an official part of the formal discharge and should be recorded, along with the discharge with out cost to the veteran. On his return from the service the veteran should have his discharge I recorded without delay in the office I of the county clerk of his home coun ty, Mr. Rosson emphasized. This is important, he pointed, out, because the vdteran will then be able to procure photostatic or dupli cate copies needed in applying for many types of employment, for state or federal educational and loan bene fits, for pensions, and for compensa tion under the federal readjustment act. Further, It will save the veteran the trouble and delay entailed in ap plying to the government for a dupli cate in the event his original dis charge papers become lost or stolen, Mr. Rosson explained. Tax Men Here In January For Farmers William A. Schoenfeld, dean of the school of agriculture at Oregon State college and director of that in stitution’s experiment station* and extension service, has been reap pointed a director of the Farm Credit Administration of Spokane, R. E. Brown, general agent, announced to day. The appointment, made by I. W. Duggan, governor of the Farm Credit Administration, is for a- three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 1946. It will be Mr. Schoenfeld’s fifth consecutive term.. As district director, he auto matically serves as a direc .or of the ltd« 1 «1 Laud Bank of Spokane, Fed eral intermediate Credit Bank of Spoking. Production Credit Corpora- ii. n of Spokane and Spokane Bank for Cooperatives. The dean has served as chairman of the district FCA board during most of the time since his original appointment in 1934. Prior to becoming agricultural dean and director of experiment stations and extensions service at Corvallis in 1931, Mr. Schoenfeld held several im portant posts with the United States department of agriculture in this county and abroad. He was assistant and acting chief of the department’s bureau of agricultural economics from 1922 to 1924. For 16 years prior to 1922 he held various positions at leading agricultural colleges and uni versities. ’ - cover <mly people engaged in agri cultural pusuits. He knows how I American alfalfa and apples and vegetables and nuts were im-( proved by patient study and selection and breeding. Could not the same process be Applied to the great trees of, the woods? Logger and foresters have known for years that inlv*»lt Brookings Jan the Granite Falls region of Washington there was a strain of °7>”herJ"axpayers ’ Douglas fir that produced the finest and most abundant .crop of ■ This itinerary seed in the northwest. But nothing was done to assure use of ------ ------------------------- , , that seed in areas being reforested. There was also a fine strain Mrs. HdirV near Doty, and another neaar Electron, both in* Washington. No * _ ’ doubt there are others in the two states. Let us hear about them. 1 HOS16SS IO It is fortunate for the new project that it will be headed by Leo Isaac, on loan from the Portland office of the Pacific north- west forest and range experiment station. Mr. Isaac doubtless knows more about the reproductive habits of Douglas fir than any other man living. A year ago he summed his knowledge of twenty- five years’ study of that subject in a bulletin that is already a Tj>tt Wednesday ev Mrs. Henry fielloni the Royal Neighbor« Elliott St. This u party.*?‘* exc^ange eadiyew** Sbe was classic and which proved, incidentally, that free seeds do not,1 daughter, Mr». Mi as most men belieyed, lie fallow for yean in the duff of the for- ? The room was attrsc est floor, but sprout almost at once, or nevfcr. • _ [ with electric candles, Mr. Isaac is patently the right man to head the new study 1 which, it is announced, will be merely pioneering work in a change of gifts pli project that may well last ten, or twenty, or a hundred years, joyed. for fir seed, unlike com and wheat, cannot be improved in a At a late hour, Ch couple of seasons. To know a fir’s mutations calls for decades, not and co,ia* WM serve seasons. It is time such a study were started. Out of it can “e?.berL.,?ITntM.' come nothing but greatly needed knowledge of h<5W to malt» Hattie Gaffey, Myrt better fir forests, and more quiekly. With lumber concerns prac- Gardner, Psyche Cra ticing the growing of trees, and with the monstrous Tillamook Venita Battey, T bum scarcely done smoldering, it is good to contemplataubetter Larkie Benham, Ns and bigger—and who knows but more fire-resistant?—specimens of the majestic tree that is a symbol of Oregon and Washington. ence Hallock’ Ruby J Home Made High School and The Veteran A Gue«r'Editorial Submittsd by VcUrans' Admlnlatrstlos • The importance of a high school diploma to Oregon’s return ing veterans cannot be over-emphasized because of the many jobs, both in private industries and in civil service in federal and state agencies, which require that the employee be a high school grad uate. For this reason, it would be wisd^for the veteran who in so many /cases was called into the service before he completed his secondary education to look carefully into the possibilities of Birthday Supper Given Mrs. Williams TO WISH YOU HAPPY EVVYEAR fered him to secure that much needed diploma. The ex-warrior can return to high school, of course. But so often he feels that he is too mature for the class room after sev eral years of army or navy life.. Further, he may have to work to support himself and quite possibly a family. For these and other reasons, it is recommended that he look into the examina tions offered by the U. S. Armed Forces Institute, under the guidance of the American Council oh Education, which may en able him to secure his diploma without need of further study As D. A. Emerson. assistant superintendent in charge of sec ondary education for the State Department of Education’, points out, the veteran certainly can’t lose by taking the tests, even if he fails. In one case, a veteran in Coquille successfully passed the exams recently, with only one year in high school prior to Mrs. Sarah Hall Passes Dec. 19 several years army service. The all-round experience and know ledge he had picked up in the service were, in his case the equivalent of about three high school years. These examinations are not a hit-and-miss proposition The Northwest. Association of Secondary and High Schools, which Mrs. Sarah Hall, mother of Miss I includes the scheol system of Oregon and five other Northwestern Grace Hall, pissed away in, Grants I ) states, ha^e spent approximately $1500 investigating the effects Pass, December It. .¿H a U i . "’i'“ °' ,he" Fore" Association has approved them fully. The American council on Pa" December 1«. I Mri Ha” had b**n ,n health representative body of high school seniors and worked out its ,or 9ome tlme Burial waa in the norms for the GI tests from the results of these. It is a sound "* Medford’ Saturday’ Plan c,n«lved on Iheprimipleth,, veteran , ±____________ -7 P F * usenu inf< rmation and his ability to reason should have increased I™'»«*'« to too important to take considerably during his time in the service. And it appears to! ch“c* ®“ ME be working out that way. I F. R. Bun • ; • • ... . .. ■ .... . •_________ W» _................................ Wight 106-L r F I 1 Education, before its endorsement, used the examinations on a ^ x.uiir . < .. -o. 1 1. '■ ' ■— ' - ; < ‘ ~ a— ...-y- .■ ■ - ........... ...... •• ---------- --------- ----------- 1 Phone 243 I < S Coquille BomeMade XXXXXXXXrxXXIXXXXXXXXXXXXl